Decisions

Decisions

This page lists the design decisions of dotclaude 0.28.0. Each row gives the number, the title, and the page with the detail. Design holds the principles and the history.

Decision	Title	Page
D1	Rule of Least Power	Settings
D2	No guard route, settings.json only	Settings
D3	Attachment and tool-description cuts by id	Prompt
D4	Measured budget	Prompt
D5	Who invokes what	Settings
D6	Status line	Tools
D7	Auto-fix hook (removed)	Tools
D8	Context7 skill	Tools
D9	Evals through claude plugin eval	Tools
D10	Schema extraction	Settings
D11	OpenSpec	Tools
D12	Agent frontmatter search	Router
D13	No router	Router
D14	Off switches	Settings
D15	dotclaude owns the system prompt	Prompt
D16	Request capture and the 30K start	Prompt
D17	Plugin and marketplace layout	Layout
D18	Separation of concerns, size bounds, bound tiers	Layout
D19	Runtimes	Layout
D20	Remove dotclaude-modder	Layout
D21	Hand-off order	Layout
D22	Context bound for subagents and the main session	Tools
D23	Development frictions	Layout
D24	Add-on plugins stay separate	Layout
D25	Agent roster	Router
D26	Code graph through the CodeGraph CLI	Tools
D27	Measured facts over model reports	Evidence
D28	Compliance by checks, not by prose	Prompt
D29	Semantic line breaks	Evidence
D30	Hold correct work under an unsupported claim	Evidence
D31	Guard hooks fail open (onFailure)	Guards
D32	Usage awareness, removed by D35	Context bound
D33	Three-column status line	Status line
D34	Adherence by checks in code, with no new judge	Core plugin
D35	No proprietary formats	Settings

The source of each decision is design.md, design-parts.md, design-parts-2.md, and design-parts-3.md in openspec/changes/archive/2026-10-11-dotclaude-0-28-0/. The facts behind them are in the research/ folder of that change.

Related pages

• Design
• Plugin layout
• Open items